Tom Heneghan
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Position: Religion Editor
My job is to coordinate religion news coverage with our bureaus around the world. Based in Paris, I also run our FaithWorld blog and report mostly about Christianity and Islam in Europe. I'm also interested in related moral issues such as bioethics. Before launching this post in 2003, I was a correspondent, bureau chief and editor in Europe and Asia over 25 years and wrote the book "Unchained Eagle: Germany after the Wall" (2000). The Council of European Churches named me their Religion Writer of the Year in 2006.
Blog Posts
How East Germany's communists misunderstood its Protestants
During communist rule in East Germany, officials failed to understand how the Protestant churches there worked because they had learned anti-religion strategies based on Moscow's campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church, according to a former East German theologian. Full Article
Some east German Protestants feel overlooked as Wall recalled
As Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, some Protestants feel the crucial role their church played in shepharding the democracy movement to success is quietly being overlooked. Full Article | Comments [3]
Italian Muslims approve pope's encyclical Caritas in Veritate
The Italian Muslim association CO.RE.IS has welcomed Pope Benedict's recent encyclical and drawn parallels between its outlook and that of Islamic economic and social thinking. Full Article | Comments [4]
